Work gets in the way of being a celebrity again - Ghostwriting Accusation Leveled at Fareed Zakaria

There just isn't enough time in the world to write when sucking up to Lib politicians and making anti-conservative quips on TV interferes with serious research and writing. Isn't that what free interns are  good for anyway?
He's in good company with the likes of such luminaries as Alex Haley, Stephen Ambrose, Doris Kearns Goodwin and that great author and speech writer, Joe Biden. 
All became dazzled by the cameras before them and became the hackneyed publicity hounds they actually were all along.

Ghostwriting Accusation Leveled at Fareed Zakaria | Observer
By Daniel D'Addario 8/21 2012

Time editor-at-large Fareed Zakaria has lately been the subject of much chatter among colleagues past and present—some of it rather unpleasant for the marquee pundit. And whileTime and CNN have done a review of his work and are satisfied that no further issues remain, it doesn’t look like his problems are over just yet: One of his former colleagues atNewsweek has asserted to Off the Record that he ghostwrote a piece that ran under Mr. Zakaria’s byline.

After being accused of plagarizing The New Yorker’s Jill Lepore recently, Mr. Zakariaexplained himself to the New York Times’sChristine Haughney: he claimed to have conflated his notes from Ms. Lepore’s piece—apparently copying a passage from the article into longhand—mistaking her thought patterns for his own. Ms. Haughney added, in a veiled aside, that Mr. Zakaria, formerly the editor of Newsweek International, “said he never had an assistant write a column in 25 years and that he began using a research assistant for his column only in the last year.” Maybe so.

However, Jerry Adler, who took a buyout from Newsweek but remained on as a contract science writer says that in 2010 he was commissioned to write an introductory letter, going out under Mr. Zakaria’s byline, for a stand-alone commemorative issue on the environment pegged to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. Knowing full well that the piece would go out under Mr. Zakaria’s name, the two-time National Magazine Award finalist says, he wrote the five-paragraph piece, never discussing it with the putative author. “He made some changes, maybe. But he didn’t say, ‘Do this and don’t tell anyone.’ It came to me through channels.”

(Disclosure: this reporter was a college intern at Time in 2007 and at Newsweek in 2009, but did not work or interact in any capacity with Mr. Zakaria in either case.)

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